Nadiah Kristensen#AMSIWinterSchool about to start. I’ll thread about for the next few weeks here … 🧵
Michael Bode just gave an incredible Acknowledgment of Country.
Dr Christine Williams talking about her “nonlinear career” was reassuring for someone who has been a bit nonlinear herself
Really nice accessible explanation from the beginning from Dr Nokuthaba Sibanda #fisheries #modelling
Day 2 #fisheries #modelling at #AMSI #mathematics winter school with Dr Nokuthaba Sibanda, and it’s getting real.
Interesting career journey story from the Optiver representative. A #mathematics degree equips you to work on a wide variety of interesting problems.
Really enjoyed the student talks. This one also had video of penguins! 🐧
Matthew Adams from UQ is teaching us this week about #model #sloppiness We started with a really clear example using a #SIR model, so everyone can follow along even if they’re completely new to the topic.
Carl Boettiger has us playing in GitHub Codespaces trying to maximise the number of fish we harvest. We’ll be learning about #ReinforcementLearning this week
Andy Hoegh told us about his work using particle #MCMC to fit agent-based movement models to data. He has worked on Grizzly bear movement and #hendra virus in bats. The slides are also on GitHub https://andyhoegh.github.io/SMCDU/#/
Patrick Grant was one of the winners of best participant talk at #AMSIWinterSchool, so he’s presenting to the joint session with #SequentialMonteCarlo Downunder about constructing virtual representations of laminated timber products. It involves #Gmsh and #Matlab.
Larissa Lubiana Botelho was also a participant-talk winner, and she told us about using #network and modularity metrics to explore how the multi-country governance of the #Antarctic has changed over time
#mathematics winter school
Liam Timms from #UniversityOfQueensland presented his winning #AMSI talk about optimising #conservation for #elephant #poaching
Liam’s model tells us when we should invest in more area or more rangers
Montana Wickens presented her winning talk about the #fisheries model she has been working on with Fisheries Queensland. She works specifically with crustaceans like the Moreton Bay Bug
Today we’re diving into coding #ReinforcementLearning for our fisheries examples.
Prof Hugh Possingham is giving the public lecture this evening about #mathematics and if it makes a difference to #conservation #policy
He’s saying some things about pseudo quantification right now that are speaking to my soul
#AMSI Winter School at QUT, #Brisbane has finished! What an excellent 2 weeks that was. I learned about #fisheries #modelling, model sloppiness, and reinforcement learning, and I got to share evolutionary game theory with a bunch of enthusiastic students.
(The photo I took on the way back to the hotel)
Future Sprog@nadiah HugePossum, good nickname
@futuresprog I think it might be his Twitter handle